Tensions in North Korea "slipping out of control"

[Ardemax]

Russia has warned of tensions in North Korea slipping out of control, after Pyongyang said it was placing its missile units on stand-by.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the situation could slip "toward the spiral of a vicious circle".

Kim Jong-un made the missile order after talks responding to US stealth bomber flights over the Korean peninsula, state news agency KCNA said.

The time had come to "settle accounts" with the US, KCNA quoted him as saying.

Annual military drills and fresh UN sanctions have angered North Korea.

After a late-night meeting with the army's strategic rocket force, Kim Jong-un "judged the time has come to settle accounts with the US imperialists", KCNA reported.

He was said to have condemned US B-2 bomber sorties over South Korea as a "reckless phase" that represented an "ultimatum that they will ignite a nuclear war at any cost on the Korean Peninsula".

US mainland and bases in Hawaii, Guam and South Korea were all named as potential targets.

The US - which flew two stealth bombers over the peninsula on Thursday as part of the ongoing annual US-South Korea military drills - has said it is ready for "any eventuality" on the peninsula.

Thousands of North Korean soldiers and students later took part in a mass rally in the centre of Pyongyang in support of Kim Jong-un's announcement, beneath large portraits of his father Kim Jong-il and grandfather Kim Il-sung.

A South Korean defence ministry spokesman described the North Korean decision as a "continuing measure", after its announcement to adopt "combat posture".

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21974381

Things are getting a bit restless over in East Asia, wouldn't you agree?

[Scotland]

stupid north korea

[-:Undertaker:-]

If North Korea do anything, it'll be the last thing North Korea ever does.

[Ardemax]

If North Korea do anything, it'll be the last thing North Korea ever does.

It'll appear on a map like Springfield did on the Simpsons Movie.

[xxMATTGxx]

If North Korea do anything, it'll be the last thing North Korea ever does.

This pretty much.

[xxMATTGxx]

@SkyNewsBreak: KCNA: North Korea says it has entered a "state of war" against South Korea

[-:Undertaker:-]

They've scrapped the peace agreement like six times before, until bullets are fired it means nothing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Armistice_Agreement

North Korea has announced that it will no longer abide by the armistice at least 6 times, in the years 1994, 1996, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2013.

[xxMATTGxx]

They've scrapped the peace agreement like six times before, until bullets are fired it means nothing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Armistice_Agreement

Shame it isn't 666 times then we all know it's the devil!

[Eric]

Technically they've been at war since 1953

[Accipiter]

I'm not going to lie here... How ******* ******ed can america get? We know that the stealth bomber can carry nuclear warheads, so they get pissed when Korea threaten them, yet that is practically the same thing they've just done back by flying the bomber over them... smh!